I expect a large portion of the current (non-paying!) CentOS community will feel hijacked.

This is going rapidly off-topic, so skip this one if you desire!

I've installed both the RHEL 7 beta and RC1. I've liked what I've seen so far, I just hope the churn in the program availability on the desktop is kept up with to the point that I can use current multi-media tools. I'm not hopeful. 

Here's my current use of Linux: I admin two RHEL servers for work. I run Fedora 20 in a laptop VM and at home on the desktop, as well as a CentOS 6 server. I attempted to run a couple of CentOS 6 desktops at home, but failed miserably with multimedia and video-editing tools. 

Since my recent bad experiences with Fedora 20, and hearing that Fedora is for working on, not to actually work, I'm reconsidering what to run on the desktop. 

I almost installed Ubuntu the other day, because of their reputation to be more stable than Fedora and more up-to-date than RHEL. I'd rather not, but I may have to go there. Guess what I would then be recommending for the next OS refresh at work?

I've been using Redhat since 5.2 (that's 1998). It's a bit depressing.



On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Shawn Wells <shawn@redhat.com> wrote:

On 5/22/14, 6:14 PM, Andrew Gilmore wrote:
I don't get it. Reading this line from the FAQ
"No, CentOS releases will follow shortly after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux source. "
leads me to believe that CentOS will be largely usable as it has been, as a free, completely compatible version of RHEL. Yes, with challenges in errata availability, but that's the use case.

Suggesting that CentOS is going to be *upstream* of RHEL suggests several other valuable, but completely different, uses. I'm not sure this is a great move, as I see bigger challenges coming from the free and polished desktop side (*cough* Ubuntu).

https://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/#_centos_and_variants

The underlying perception is that historically RHEL6 == CentOS6. In the future, as CentOS develops into it's own community, the two will diverge measurably (which is a good thing for the community, IMO!). This allows Fedora to track closer to upstream, CentOS to serve special development platform needs, RHEL to serve enterprise. We may encounter a situation akin to Fedora 30, CentOS 10, RHEL 7... all on different release cycles, all with different spins and purposes.




RHEL 7 should be very interesting.
Download & play with the release candidate!
https://access.redhat.com/site/products/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/Get-Beta

I'd wager you're getting at the evolution of the community, though. And you're right. It'll be interesting.

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